Metal table



(N0 ModeL) H. A. MATTHEWS.

METAL TABLE.

No. 315,310. Patente d A pr. 7,1885."

I NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HENRY A. MATTHEWS, 'O'F WATERBURY, CONNECTICUT.

METAL TABLE.

.SPECIPICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 315,310, dated April7, 1885.

Application filed March 13, 1884. (No model.)

T0 aZZ whom it may concern:

. Be it known that I, HENRY A. MATTHEWS, of Waterbury, in the county ofNew Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new Improvement inMetal Tables; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken inconnection with accompanying drawings and the letters of referencemarked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same,and which said drawings constitute part of this specification, andrepresent, in

Figure 1, a side elevation, partly in section; Fig. 2, a top view; Fig.8. a partial section through the top, full size.

This invention relates to an improvement in ornamental tables especiallyadapted for game and like purposes, where small tables are desirable;and the invention consists in the construction of the table, ashereinafter described, and more particularly recited in the claim.

For the top of the table I construct a wood body, A, recessed upon itsupper side to leave a surrounding ledge, a. The edge or periphery ofthis body is molded of any desirable pattern. plied, its central portionsunk so as to lie upon the top of the body and cover the ledge a, theouter edge of the metal wrought into molded shape corresponding to theedge of the body and its extreme edge turned beneath the body, the underside of the body preferably first covered with sheet metal d, which issecured to the body by the overlapping edge e of the scalp.

Instead of molding the edge of the body to correspond to the scalp, theedge may be left plain, the scalp molded upon a-form independent of thebody. The sheet-metal topis rolled to impress the figures or diagramsfor games, here represented as checkers. The impression is made withoutdisturbing the general plane of the table-that is to say, as seen inFig. 3, the squares which represent the black squares havethe figuresstruck below its general plane; but the depressions are so slight as notto interfere with the general plane of the square, that plane being thesame as the white squaresthat is to say, the figures which indicate theposition of the men in a gameare formed with depressions less in areathan the figure, the

Onto this body a metal scalp, b, is ap-- salient portions of the figureretaining the general plane of the surface of the board. Thesedepressions may be in the shape of flowers, birds, or other figures; orthey may be simply impressed, so as to produce what is known as a mattedsurface. ing the top not only makes it highly ornamental, but useful inthat it prepares the suri This method of prepar face for the game in ahighly ornamental man ner and without interfering with the playing. Therolls for making the sheet for the top of the table have their surfacesprepared according to the ornamentation desired.

In other games-backgammon,for illustration-the figures will bemade ofthe usual shape. Alternate figures areimpressed upon the surface, asdescribed, forthe squares in the checker. table is also made from sheetmetal. This consists of a central column, B, made from tubing, andornamental sections D E, made from sheet metal, as shown. The said partsare set together and secured to'each other and to the table by a centralrod, F, running up through the standard into a head, G, upon the underside of the table.

- To the ornamental sections D- E legs H are The standard or support forthe attachedthree or more. These legs are made from tubing, as shown,the ends tipped with ornaments and secured to the ornamental sections byscrews f, and by surrounding ornamental bands h, attached to thesections or otherwise. By this construction I am enabled to make thetable complete from metal, and of a highly ornamental character, and itbeing be improved by making in area than the figure, the salient partsof the to figure retaining the same general plane as the surface of thetable-top, substantially as described.

HENRY- A. MATTHElVS.

Witnesses:

FRANKLIN G. WELTON, CHAS. G. R001.

